The FECGSYNDB is a large database of simulated adult and non-invasive fetal ECG (NI-FECG) signals, which provides a robust resource that enables reproducible research in the field. The data is generated using the FECGSYN simulator (visit website).

Experiment/Simulation Details

The simulator represents maternal and foetal hearts as punctual dipoles with different magnitudes and spatial positions. This current version obtains foetal–maternal mixtures by treating each abdominal signal component (e.g. foetal/maternal ECG or noise signals) as an individual source, whose signal is propagated onto the observational points (‘electrodes’). Therefore this database is able to provide separate waveform files for each signal source.

The file extensions are in the standard WFDB MIT format: .hea for header files, and .dat for signal files. As shown in Fig. 1 above, channels 1–32 are the abdominal FECG channels and channels 33-34 are the maternal reference ECG channels. Header files also contain additional model parameters described in table 2 of Andreotti et al. The units are listed as 'nu' for no units since the signals are simulated, though their amplitudes do correspond to the 1–2mV amplitudes of normal MECG signals. Annotation files .qrs give machine generated QRS locations of their respective signals.

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